David Scott

(b Edinburgh, 10 Oct 1806; d Edinburgh, 5 March 1849). He was the son of Robert Scott (1771-1841), an illustrator and engraver. His parents' religiousness may have led him to an interest in mysticism, and his natural melancholy was increased by the deaths of many of his siblings. Blake's illustrations for Edward Young's Night Thoughts and Robert Blair's The Grave, owned by his father, were an early influence. He studied at the Trustees' Academy and attended an anatomy class in Edinburgh. In 1822 he visited London, where he admired the paintings of William Etty and Benjamin Robert Haydon. In 1828 his painting The Hopes of Genius Dispelled by Death (untraced) was hung at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. In 1831 the Monograms of Man were published. These six plates trace the life of man symbolically and with profound pessimism. Engraved in a linear style reminiscent of Blake, they were a financial failure. Far more successful were his illustrations to Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, done in 1831 with the poet's approval but published six years later, after his death. Scott's vivid imagination made him the ideal interpreter for the macabre aspects of the poem.

Part of the Scott family

See the Abbreviations for further details.

congressional representative; chief executive officer; founder; legislator (u.s. state government)

Personal Information

Born on June 27, 1946, in Aynor, SC; married Alfredia Aaron, 1969; children: Dayna, Marcye
Education: Florida A&M University, BA, 1967; Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, MBA, 1969.
Politics: Democrat.
Religion: Baptist.

Career

Georgia state government, representative, 1974-82, senator, 1982-2002; Dayn-Mark Advertising, founder and CEO, 1979-2002; U.S. House of Representatives, representative from Georgia's 13th District, 2002-.

Life's Work

"David Scott could become the model for a new breed of Democrat," noted the Atlanta Journal-Constitution after Scott won election to the United States House of Representatives in November of 2002. Scott, who supported U.S. intervention in Iraq and backed President George W. Bush's tax cuts in 2003, was a political moderate whose views diverged in many respects from the liberal ideals held by most of his African-American cohorts in Congress. Yet Scott was not always easy to classify. An independent thinker over his long career in Georgia's state legislature, Scott gained a reputation for staking out causes of his own and pursuing them until he saw his ideas realized as laws.

David Scott was born in Aynor, South Carolina, on June 27, 1946. His father was a minister who also worked as a butler and chauffeur, and his mother was a cook and a domestic worker. As a young man Scott lived in various places, sometimes with grandparents, while his parents moved around as well-paying jobs presented themselves. When Scott was in junior high school, his parents found jobs in the wealthy New York City suburb of Scarsdale. The experience of living and attending school there permanently shaped Scott's personality. "I wasn't just the only black kid in my class, I was the only black kid in the city of Scarsdale," Scott told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Rose Quickly in Georgia State Government

Scott attributed his tendency to take lone-wolf political stands to his youthful experiences, and perhaps they impelled him as well to become the first member of his family to attend college. After graduating from high school in Daytona Beach, Florida, Scott enrolled at Florida A&M University, earning a degree with honors in 1967. While at Florida A&M, Scott met Alfredia Aaron, sister of baseball great Hank Aaron. The two were married in 1969 and raised two daughters, Dayna and Marcye. Scott's college experiences also included an internship at the U.S. Labor Department in Washington, D.C.; while there, he met a professor at Philadelphia's high-powered Wharton School of Business. Scott went on to earn an M.B.A. degree at Wharton, once again with honors, in 1969.

Moving with his growing family to the Atlanta area, Scott established an advertising agency, Dayn-Mark, named after his two daughters. He served as the company's CEO through much of his tenure in Georgia's state legislature, which began with his election to the Georgia House in 1974. Both daughters eventually become involved with the agency, taking it over after Scott's election to Congress. With his grand speechmaking powers honed by the cadences of the Baptist church of his childhood (both his grandfathers were church deacons), Scott was a natural for politics. He moved on to the Georgia Senate in 1982, and seniority rules eventually brought him to the chairmanship of its powerful rules committee.

Some of the positions Scott staked out in the state senate held to traditional Democratic themes as he worked to support the interests of his primarily working-class constituents. He pushed through a bill mandating early intervention designed to prevent Georgia schoolchildren from having to repeat a grade, and he took an interest in bread-and-butter environmental issues, sponsoring a bill to restrict concentrations of landfills in order to curb their proliferation in poorer neighborhoods. While working toward passage of the latter bill, Scott personally buttonholed wavering legislators and took them in his car on tours of local landfills. Scott authored legislation requiring background checks of gun buyers in Georgia--one of the first gun-control measures ever enacted in that predominantly conservative state."

Fought Passionately for Laws

Other Scott measures found support among more conservative voters, who would later become instrumental in propelling Scott to Congress. In 1993 he sponsored and won enactment of a bill requiring a moment of silence prior to the beginning of the school day in Georgia schools. He introduced a similar bill in the U.S. House in 2003. Scott denied that he was seeking a backdoor route for Christian prayer into the public schools, pointing out that his bill specifically prohibited turning the moment of silence into a religious exercise. "It is not a function of this bill to make anybody pray," Scott was quoted as saying in the Chattanooga Times Free Press after his national bill was introduced. "You can't do that. Prayer is a personal thing. It can only be meaningful if it is a self-invocation." Nevertheless, Scott took criticism from both civil libertarians opposed to prayer in the schools and Christian conservatives who favored spoken prayers.

By the late 1990s, Scott had become known to Georgians as a legislator who would defend, passionately if necessary, positions that he was convinced were valid. On several occasions speeches Scott made on the senate floor attracted widespread notice. In the year 2000, Scott irked legislators but won praise from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution when he attacked two fellow Democrats for blocking a bill he had proposed to create an oversight board to manage the affairs of a troubled Atlanta hospital; the two legislators, Scott argued, had significant (though not illegal) financial interests in blocking change in the way the hospital was run. Then, on September 11, 2001, Scott spoke out against a redistricting plan that would have split the heart of his district.

Even amidst news coverage of an unprecedented terrorist attack, Scott's speech made the papers the next morning. The following Sunday, Scott felt a calling in church to run for the open U.S. House seat in Georgia's new 13th District. Former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young and brother-in-law Hank Aaron encouraged him to make the race, and Scott benefited in a crowded field from a campaign fundraiser attended by Aaron and held at the luxurious home of heavyweight boxer Evander Holyfield.

Won White-Majority District Without Runoff

The 13th District was not one of those drawn to guarantee the election of a minority lawmaker; African Americans made up only 38 percent of the district's voting-age population, and Scott faced competition from several powerful white state lawmakers. But Scott stunned political pundits, who had expected a close race culminating in a runoff, by winning the August 2002 Democratic primary outright with 55 percent of the vote. "People want their values strengthened," Scott told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in explaining his success. "They want to feel safe. They want leaders with good common sense, not ranting and raving, not pitting one group against the other." Scott's candidacy appealed not only to blacks but also to conservative white Democrats, with whom Scott had built bridges during his moment-of-silence drive and during earlier controversies over school curriculum reform. Scott ran television advertisements claiming that his moment-of-silence measure had returned prayer to public schools.

Scott went on to win the November election against a white Republican opponent with 59 percent of the vote. "I feel humbled knowing how far I've come, he said (as quoted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution) as he was sworn into office. Scott was named to the Agriculture and Financial Services committees, working in the latter capacity to serve the needs of small businesses; he often noted that as a small business owner, he had had ample experience with the day-to-day challenges of making a payroll. Scott kept a low profile as he became one of only seven Democrats to vote in favor of President Bush's tax cuts in 2003, but he pointed out that his constituent mail was running heavily in favor of the tax-cut measure. An effective legislator, David Scott was still an up-and-comer after 30 years in the business of politics.

Further Reading

Periodicals

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 13, 1991, p. C3; March 6, 1994, p. E1; February 22, 1996, p. D2; March 1, 1998, p. G4; March 22, 2000, p. A14; April 2, 2000, p. C1; February 24, 2002, p. C6; August 22, 2002, p. B3; November 14, 2002, p. JN16; January 8, 2003, p. A6; February 25, 2003, p. B1; May 30, 2003, p. A7.
• Chattanooga Times Free Press, March 12, 2003, p. A8.
• Washington Post, August 27, 2002, p. A15.

• "About David Scott," Representative David Scott's Official Website, http://davidscott.house.gov (July 15, 2003).

— James M. Manheim

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David Randolph Scott
Astronaut
Born	June 6, 1932 (1932-06-06) (age 77) San Antonio, Texas
Other occupation	Test Pilot
Rank	Colonel, USAF
Time in space	22d 18h 53m
Selection	1963 NASA Group
Missions	Gemini 8, Apollo 9, Apollo 15
Mission insignia

David Randolph Scott (born June 6, 1932), a former NASA astronaut, was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963. As commander of the Apollo 15 mission, the fourth human lunar landing, he was the seventh person to walk on the Moon and the first person to drive on the Moon. As command module pilot on Apollo 9, David Scott became the last American to fly solo in earth orbit.

Contents 1 Early life and education 2 NASA 3 Stamp incident 4 After NASA 5 References 6 External links

Early life and education

He was born on Randolph Air Force Base (for which he received his middle name) near San Antonio, Texas and was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout.^[1] He was educated at Texas Military Institute, Riverside Polytech High School in Riverside, California, where Scott joined the swim team and set several state and local swim records. He attended the University of Michigan for one year before finally receiving an invitation to attend West Point where he finished 5th in his class out of 633 in 1954. Because of his high standing in the class, He was able to choose which branch of the military he would serve. Scott choose the Air Force because he wanted to fly jets.^[2] He received both an S.M. degree in Aeronautics/Astronautics and the degree of Engineer in Aeronautics/Astronautics (the E.A.A. degree) from MIT in 1962. [1] He also received an honorary doctorate of Astronautical Science from the University of Michigan in 1971. He is of Scottish descent.

NASA

Scott was the first of the Group Three astronauts to be selected to fly and was also the first to command a mission of his own.

On March 16, 1966, he and command pilot Neil Armstrong were launched into space on the Gemini 8 mission, a flight originally scheduled to last three days but terminated early due to a malfunctioning thruster. The crew performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space and demonstrated great piloting skill in overcoming the thruster problem and bringing the spacecraft to a safe landing.

Scott served as command module pilot for Apollo 9 (March 3–13 March 1969). This was the third manned flight in the Apollo series, the second to be launched by a Saturn V, and the first to complete a comprehensive earth-orbital qualification and verification test of a "fully configured Apollo spacecraft." The ten-day flight provided vital information previously not available on the operational performance, stability, and reliability of lunar module propulsion and life support systems. Highlight of this evaluation was completion of a critical lunar-orbit rendezvous simulation and subsequent docking, initiated by James McDivitt and Russell Schweickart from within the lunar module at a separation distance which exceeded 100 miles (160 km) from the command/service module piloted by Scott. The crew also demonstrated and confirmed the operational feasibility of crew transfer and extravehicular activity techniques and equipment, with Schweickart completing a 46-minute EVA outside the lunar module. During this period, Dave Scott completed a 1-hour stand-up EVA in the open command module hatch photographing Schweickart's activities and also retrieving thermal samples from the command module exterior. Apollo 9 splashed down less than four nautical miles (7 km) from the helicopter carrier USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7).

In his next assignment, Scott was designated backup spacecraft commander for Apollo 12.

Scott conducting an experiment during the Apollo 15 moon landing.

He made his third space flight as spacecraft commander of Apollo 15 (July 26–August 7, 1971). His companions on the flight were Alfred M. Worden (command module pilot) and James B. Irwin (lunar module pilot). Apollo 15 was the fourth manned lunar landing mission and the first to land near treacherous mountains instead of the relatively flat mare region where the previous 3 missions had landed. The landing site was between 2 mountains just north of Hadley Rille and Apennine Mountains which are located on the southeast edge of the Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains). After landing, Scott and Irwin donned their pressure suits and Scott performed the first and only stand up EVA on the lunar surface. He stood on the engine cover and poked his head out the docking port on top of the lunar module and took panoramic photographs of the surrounding terrain from an elevated position and scouted the terrain they would be driving across the next day. The lunar module, "Falcon," remained on the lunar surface for 66 hours and 54 minutes (setting a new record for lunar surface stay time) and Scott and Irwin logged 18 hours and 35 minutes each in extravehicular activities conducted during three separate excursions onto the lunar surface. Using "Rover-1" to transport themselves and their equipment along portions of Hadley Rille and the Apennine Mountains, Scott and Irwin performed a selenological inspection and survey of the area and collected 180 pounds (82 kg) of lunar surface materials. They deployed an ALSEP package which involved the emplacement and activation of surface experiments, and their lunar surface activities were televised using a TV camera which was operated remotely by ground controllers stationed in the mission control center located at Houston, Texas. Other Apollo 15 achievements include: largest payloads ever placed into earth and lunar orbits; first scientific instrument module bay flown and operated on an Apollo spacecraft; longest distance traversed on lunar surface; first use of a lunar surface navigation device (mounted on Rover-1); first subsatellite launched in lunar orbit; and first extravehicular (EVA) from a command module during transearth coast. The latter feat performed by Worden during three excursions to "Endeavour's" SIM-bay where he retrieved film cassettes from the panoramic and mapping cameras and reported his personal observations of the general condition of equipment housed there. Apollo 15 concluded with a Pacific Ocean splashdown and subsequent recovery by the USS Okinawa.

He has a B.S. from the United States Military Academy and an S.M. from MIT. He has been awarded two NASA Distinguished Service Medals, the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, two Air Force Distinguished Service Medals, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Force Association's David C. Schilling Trophy and the Robert J. Collier Trophy.

In the 1998 television series From the Earth to the Moon Scott was portrayed by Brett Cullen.

Stamp incident

Main article: Apollo 15 postage stamp incident

David Scott's Apollo 15 training space suit on display in the Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC.

After the return of Apollo 15 to Earth, it was discovered that, without authority, Scott, with the knowledge of his crew, had taken 398 commemorative first day covers to the moon of which a hundred were then sold to a German stamp dealer. The profits of the sale would have been used to establish trust funds for the Apollo 15 crew's children. Although their action was not in any way illegal, and despite the fact that NASA had turned a blind eye to similar activities on earlier flights, the administration decided to make an example of Scott and his crew and none of them flew in space again.

After NASA

• He commentated for British TV on the first Space Shuttle flight (STS-1) in April 1981.
• He also consulted on the movies Apollo 13 for Ron Howard and was on the set for much of the filming of the HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon, where he advised both Tom Hanks and the various directors, as well as answered questions from the actors on set.
• In 2003 he was briefly engaged to British television newscaster Anna Ford.
• In 2003-2004 he consulted on the BBC TV series Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets
• In 2004, he and former Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov began work on a dual biography / history of the "Space Race" between the United States and the Soviet Union. The book, "Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race" was published in 2006. Neil Armstrong and Tom Hanks both wrote introductions to the book.
• He currently resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Margaret "Mag" Black-Scott, an executive for Morgan Stanley. [2] [3]
• Scott is one of the astronauts featured in the book and documentary In the Shadow of the Moon, and was instrumental in helping to get the film off the ground.

References

1. ^ "Astronauts and the BSA". Fact sheet. Boy Scouts of America. http://www.scouting.org/Media/FactSheets/02-558.aspx. Retrieved on 2006-03-20. 
2. ^ Two Sides of the Moon, PP18-28

• Scott, David; Alexei Leonov (2006). Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race. with Christine Toomey. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0312308663. 

Some years after his career at NASA concluded, Scott wrote this book with Alexei Leonov, the first person to walk in space, about being on opposite sides of the space race during the Cold War.

• In the Shadow of the Moon, Francis French and Colin Burgess, UNP, 2007.

External links

United States Air Force portal

• David R. Scott: Official NASA biography
• David R. Scott: Challenges facing the human exploration of Mars public lecture at the Royal Society in London

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